The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 60
... Perhaps the tale is apocryphal , but it illustrates the point that in rural as indeed in urban - Australia , Europeans now simply equated Aborigines with other non - European ethnic groups . They were all to be considered and treated as ...
... Perhaps the tale is apocryphal , but it illustrates the point that in rural as indeed in urban - Australia , Europeans now simply equated Aborigines with other non - European ethnic groups . They were all to be considered and treated as ...
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... Perhaps what contributed to the discipline that the family demonstrated in their capacity for saving and work was the fact that they were Methodists who neither drank nor gambled . When Harris retired in 1894 he received sufficient ...
... Perhaps what contributed to the discipline that the family demonstrated in their capacity for saving and work was the fact that they were Methodists who neither drank nor gambled . When Harris retired in 1894 he received sufficient ...
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... perhaps contributed to their assault on wildlife as they revelled in undreamt - of liberties . In the second half of the nineteenth century both South Australia and Victoria passed game laws whose main aims were to preserve imported ...
... perhaps contributed to their assault on wildlife as they revelled in undreamt - of liberties . In the second half of the nineteenth century both South Australia and Victoria passed game laws whose main aims were to preserve imported ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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